Virtual Spokeperson software

[Tekstar]

I know I have seen this type of software before either online or offered by a Warrior that is used to create the virtual spokesperson that pops out onto the screen of your website. I'm searching and I cant find this again. Does anyone know of anyone offering this or a good tutorial on creating it. I've found one for After effects but I do not have AE.

Thanks,

-Bob

[Loren Woirhaye]

You mean a "walk on" video spokesperson, as in a real person
that walks out or pops up... or do you mean an animated
cartoon person?

For walk-on you need a transparent video player. If you
want a truly transparent walk-on there's a lot of setup
to doing it plus some special software. Do-able for under
$500 in equipment and software if you know what to get
and already have a digital video camera. You need to
use a chroma-key setup to get true transparent video
of a real person. You can fake it by shooting against a
white background and using a white webpage too.

For a cartoon person you can use a few different things -
most of which look weird but some people like them.

There are services that do walk-ons with an actor but
if you want to be your own spokesperson or have a lot
to say that might not work out.

Many of the things I've looked at had a limit of 60 or 120
seconds.

These are very general answers. There are a lot of specifics
to doing this stuff in a cool way. You need space, light,
and knowledge to do it yourself to a pro standard.

[mgkimsal]

Originally Posted by Tekstar

I know I have seen this type of software before either online or offered by a Warrior that is used to create the virtual spokesperson that pops out onto the screen of your website. I'm searching and I cant find this again. Does anyone know of anyone offering this or a good tutorial on creating it. I've found one for After effects but I do not have AE.

Thanks,

-Bob

A friend of mine is involved in TVP Goes Green - Green Screen and Pop-O-Grams which does what I think you're talking about. Not sure of the pricing, but it looks like what you're after.

[Tekstar]

Yes the walk on spokesperson. I already have the pro camera, green screen and lights. Just need the info to create it.

Thanks,

-Bob

[Loren Woirhaye]

You need to key out the background and render to a format
that accepts alpha channel video. Your video file needs
to contain both the actual image of your walk-on and the
information for the transparency. Most video formats
will not do this so you have to know some stuff about
animation video formats. You have to render to .FLV with
a .FLV converter that supports Alpha channel.

I do consulting on direct response methods and video (hint),
so it's not exactly in my interests to share everything I
know about this effect in a public forum.

[Killer Joe]

Another Warrior here by the name of Josh Anderson is someone you could check out, as well.

KJ

[John Cabral]

Check out one of Josh's sites Transparent Video - Transparent Video Effect - Alpha Channel Video